of the European Training and Research Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (ETC) Graz and the Institute of International Law and
III. Teaching and Training Activities
All these activities have led to a particular competence in the field of human security, which has been reflected in training programmes, in particular the yearly Summer Academy on Human Security and Human Rights, organised by the ETC 2003-2010.
The ETC regularly publishes a peer-reviewed electronic journal called Human Security Perspectives and the HUMSEC Journal.
Professor Benedek und Dr. Oberleitner also contribute to the EU-funded European Regional Master Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC Venice) by regularly teaching classes on human rights and human security, while Dr. Oberleitner also teaches human security at Science Po in Paris.
In the academic years 2008-2010 further teaching activities on human security were developed for the Student Exchange Programme in Human Security (SEPHS), which created an opportunity for Canadian and European undergraduate students from six
Since 2011, Prof. Benedek offers a yearly course on human security in international law and international relations at the University of Graz.
The research focus is developed further through past and ongoing diploma theses and doctoral dissertations:
Hauthaler, Nathan, The Responsibility to Protect in International Law – A Shift in the Intervention Debate? (diploma thesis)
Hussien, Mohammud A., Collective Intervention and Regional Enforcement Action in Africa: Challenges and Prospects of the AU System of Peace and Security (doctoral dissertation)
Kopetz, Clemens, Die Anwendbarkeit von humanitärem Völkerrecht auf nicht-internationale Konflikte unter dem Gesichtspunkt der menschlichen Sicherheit (diploma thesis)
Kettemann, Matthias C., Revisiting the Interposition of States Between Individuals and International Law (doctoral dissertation)
Mamoucha, Sofia, Operationalising human security in terms of the European Security and Defense Policy: The case of EULEX Kosovo (Master thesis)
Möstl, Markus, Das Konzept der menschlichen Sicherheit in der Europäischen Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik (doctoral dissertation)
Skasa Albin, Die Intervention von Drittstaaten im internen bewaffneten Konflikt und ihre Auswirkungen (diploma thesis)
Jovanovic, Sinisa, Contemporary Law of Occupation. The Development of the Law of Occupation and the Obligation to Restore and Ensure “L’ordré et la Vie Public” with Special Reference to the Occupation of Iraq” (diploma thesis)
Ablasser, Christine, Die völkerrechtlichen Maßnahmen zum Schutz von Frauen vor Gewalt in bewaffneten Konflikten (diploma thesis)
Konrad, Corinna, The Human Security Concept of Japan (diploma thesis)
Zwitter, Andrej, Prevention of Terrorism: A Human Security Approach (doctoral dissertation)
IV. Publications
Benedek, Wolfgang, Markus Möstl, Matthias C. Kettemann, Mainstreaming Human Security: A Research Agenda, in: Benedek/Kettemann/Möstl (eds.), Mainstreaming Human Security in Peace Operations and Crisis Management. Policies, Problems, Potential, Routledge, London 2010, 1-11 (with Wolfgang Benedek und Markus Möstl).
Benedek, Wolfgang, Markus Möstl, Matthias C. Kettemann, A Roadmap towards Mainstreaming Human Security, in: Benedek/Kettemann/Möstl (eds.), Mainstreaming Human Security in Peace Operations and Crisis Management. Policies, Problems, Potential, Routledge, London 2010, 245-257 (with Wolfgang Benedek und Markus Möstl)
Benedek, Wolfgang, The Human Security Approach to Terrorism and Organized Crime in Post-Conflict Situations, in: Wolfgang Benedek, Christopher Daase, Vojin Dimitrijevic, Petrus van Duyne (eds.), Transnational Terrorism, Organized Crime and Peace Building.
Human Security in the Western Balkans, Palgrave Macmillan, Great Britain 2010, 3-16.
Benedek, Wolfgang, Mainstreaming human security in United Nations and European Union peace and crises management operations: policies and practice, in: Wolfgang Benedek/Matthias C. Kettemann/Markus Möstl (eds.), Mainstreaming Human Security in
Benedek, Wolfgang, The Role of Education for Sustainable Peace-Building, in: Ernst M.
Felberbauer, Predrag Jurekovic and Frederic Labarre (Eds.), Supporting Bosnia and Herzegovina, The Challenge of Reaching Self-Sustainability in a Post-War Environment, National Defense Academy, Vienna 2009, 183-204.
Benedek, Wolfgang and Kettemann, Matthias C., Menschliche Sicherheit und Menschenrechte, in Claudia Ulbert/Sascha Werthes (eds.), Menschliche Sicherheit.
Globale Herausforderungen und regionale Perspektiven, Nomos, Baden-Baden 2008, 94-109.
Benedek, Wolfgang, Human Security and Human Rights Interaction, in: Moufida Goucha and John Crowley (eds.), Rethinking Human Security, International Social Science Journal 2008, 7-17.
Benedek, Wolfgang, Die Relevanz des Konzepts der menschlichen Sicherheit für die persönliche Sicherheit, in: Martin H. W. Möllers/Robert Chr. Van Ooyen (eds.), Jahrbuch Öffentliche Sicherheit 2006/2007, Verlag für Polizeiwissenschaft, Clemens Lorei, Frankfurt, 2007, 519-533.
Benedek, Wolfgang, Human Rights and Human Security: Challenges and Prospects, in:
Alice Yotopoulos-Marangopoulos (ed.), L’Etat Actuel des Droits de l’Homme dans le Monde, Defis et Perspectives, Conférence internationale à l’occasion du 25e anniversaire d’activités de la FMDH, Editions A Pedone, Paris, 2006, 97-110.
Benedek, Wolfgang, Der Beitrag des Konzeptes der menschlichen Sicherheit zur Friedenssicherung, in: Klaus Dicke, Stephan Hobe, Karl-Ulrich Meyn, Anne Peters, Eibe Riedel, Hans-Joachim Schütz and Christian Tietje (eds.), Weltinnenrecht, Liber amicorum Jost Delbrück, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, 25-36.
Benedek, Wolfgang, Human Security and Prevention of Terrorism, in: Wolfgang Benedek and Alice Yotopoulos-Marangopoulos (eds.), Anti-Terrorist Measures and Human Rights, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden/Boston, 2004), 171-184.
Kettemann, Matthias C., Regimewechsel und Schutzverantwortung: Völkerrechtliche Aspekte des Libyen-Konfliktes [Regime Change and Responsibility to Protect, International Legal Aspects of the Conflict in Libya], in: Otto Kammerlander (ed.), Expertenforum SpringerRecht.at 2011, Wien/New York, Springer 2012, 125-129.
Kettemann, Matthias C., Lessons from Libya: a Test Case for Human Security Main-streaming?, Human Security Perspectives 1/2011, 40-52.
Kettemann, Matthias C., Regimewechsel und Schutzverantwortung: Völkerrechtliche Aspekte des Libyen-Konfliktes [Regime Change and Responsibility to Protect:
International Legal Aspects of the Conflict in Libya], SpringerRecht.at Expertenforum, 17 May 2011, http://www.springerrecht.at/regimewechsel-und-schutzverantwortung-volkerrechtliche-aspekte-des-libyen-konfliktes_matthias-c-kettemann.
Kettemann, Matthias C., UN-Sicherheitsrat beruft sich in Libyen-Resolutionen erstmals auf Responsibility to Protect [UN Security Council, for the first time, refers to Responsibility to Protect in his Libya Resolutions], BOFAX 377D, http://www. ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ifhv/documents/bofaxe/bofaxe2011/377d.pdf.
Kettemann Matthias C., Menschliche Sicherheit: Erfolgsrezept für Friedensoperationen von UNO und EU [Human Security: Formula for Success for UN and EU Peace Operations], Global View 4/2010.
Kettemann Matthias C./Markus Möstl, Die Bedeutung menschlicher Sicherheit [The Meaning of Human Security], Global View 1/2009, 10.
Kettemann Matthias C., Markus Möstl, Der Königsweg zur Verbindung von Menschenrechten und Sicherheit: der Beitrag des Konzeptes menschlicher Sicherheit
Wintersteiner (eds.), Menschenrecht und Frieden. Jahrbuch Friedenskultur 2009, Klagenfurt, Drava Verlag, 2009, 110-123.
Kettemann, Matthias C., Harmonizing International Constitutional Law and Security: the Contribution of the Concept of Human Security, in: Harald Eberhard/Konrad Lachmayer/Gregor Ribarov/Gerhard Thallinger (eds.), Constitutional Limits to Security.
Proceedings of the 4th Vienna Workshop on International Constitutional Law, Wien/Baden-Baden 2009, 109-134.
Kettemann, Matthias C., The Visiting Practice of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture as an Instrument to Further Human Security, Human Security Journal/Révue de la Sécurité Humaine (2007) 3, 79-88 (with Antonia Dürnsteiner).
Kettemann, Matthias C., „The Conceptual Debate on Human Security and its Relevance for the Development of International Law“, Human Security Perspectives 3 (2006) 1, 39-52.
Kicker Renate/Standard-setting through Monitoring? The Role of selected Council of Europe Expert Bodies for the Development of the European Rights Order, Council of Europe Publishing, forthcoming 2012
Möstl, Markus, Monitoring Human Rights by Council of Europe Bodies: Quo vadis?, in:
European Yearbook on Human Rights, Vol. 4., 2012, 303-312.
Möstl, Markus, Civil-military coordination in the Common Defence Policy of the European Union, in: Human Security Perspectives 1/2011, pp.30-39.
Möstl, Markus, Reforming the Council of Europe’s human rights monitoring mechanisms, in: Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, Vol. 4/2011, (with Renate Kicker and Emma Lantschner)
Möstl, Markus, Assessing the impact of multi-stakeholder partnerships for human security, in: Owen Greene, Andrea De Guttry and Wolfgang Benedek (eds.), Peace-building and human security after conflict: multi-stakeholder partnerships. New York/London, Routledge, (forthcoming 2012).
Möstl, Markus, MultiPart country study on Kosovo, available online at: www.multi-part.eu, 2010 (with Wolfgang Benedek and Jens Narten).
Möstl, Markus, Core tasks of good governance and their impact on peacebuilding and human security, in: MultiPart thematic paper on multi-stakeholder partnerships active in the field of good governance, democracy and rule of law, available online at: www.multi-part.eu, 2010, 53-79.
Möstl, Markus, Overall conclusions, in: MultiPart thematic paper on multi-stakeholder partnerships active in the field of good governance, democracy and rule of law, available online at: www.multi-part.eu, 2010, 226-236.Mainstreaming human rights in the Common Security and Defence Policy: reality or catchphrase? in: European Yearbook on Human Rights, Vol. 2., 2010, 247-262.
Möstl, Markus, The European way of promoting human security in crisis management operations: A critical stocktaking, in: Wolfgang Benedek, Matthias C. Kettemann and Markus Möstl (eds.), Mainstreaming human security in peace operations and crisis management. Policies, problems, potential. New York/London, Routledge, 2010, 141-158.
Möstl, Markus, “Human Security and the European Security and Defence Policy:
Achievements and Challenges”, in: Ferrándiz Francisco (ed.), Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Peace and Conflict: A View from Europe, Humanitarian Net Publication, Universidad de Deusto, Spain (2009).
Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik, in: Erstausgabe Vol. 2, 2009, 181-188.
Oberleitner, Gerd, Human Security, in David P. Forsythe, Encyclopedia of Human Rights (Oxford: Oxford University Press), forthcoming 2009.
Oberleitner, Gerd, Responsibility as Security to Protect, Nuntium, forthcoming 2009.
Oberleitner, Gerd, The OSCE and Human Security, Security and Human Rights 1 (2008), 382-390.
Oberleitner, Gerd, “Porcupines in Love: The Intricate Convergence of Human Rights and Human Security”, European Human Rights Law Review 6 (2006), 588-606.
Oberleitner, Gerd, “Human Security – A Challenge to International Law?”, Global Governance 11 (2005) 2, 185-203.
Oberleitner, Gerd, “A Just War against Terrorism?”, Peace Review 16 (2004) 3, 263-268.
Oberleitner, Gerd, “Human Security and Human Rights,” European Training and Research Centre for Human Rights and Democracy Occasional Paper No. 8 (2002), http://www.etc-graz.at/publikationen/Human%20Security%20occasional%20paper.pdf.
Oberleitner, Gerd, “Civil Rights Sacrificed on Altar of Security”, Times Higher Education Supplement 22, 6 December 2002 (with Conor Gearty).